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Hacker News (2020)

  1. Show HN: HiddenVM – Use any desktop OS without leaving a trace

    422 points • comment • mar 05, 2020

  2. Psilocybin found safe for consumption in largest ever controlled study

    422 points • comment • jan 02, 2020

  3. Windows 10 20H2: ChkDsk damages filesystem on SSDs with KB4592438 installed

    422 points • comment • dec 20, 2020

  4. Police killings more likely in agencies that get military gear, data shows

    422 points • comment • oct 12, 2020

  5. Uber and Lyft shutdown in California averted as judge grants emergency stay

    422 points • comment • aug 20, 2020

  6. ADHD, a Lifelong Struggle (2018)

    421 points • comment • jan 23, 2020

  7. Gallup: 81% of Black Americans Want Police to Retain Local Presence

    421 points • comment • aug 25, 2020

  8. An Introduction to Data Oriented Design with Rust

    421 points • comment • sep 17, 2020

  9. The 212-story skyscraper in Melbourne, Australia

    421 points • comment • aug 20, 2020

  10. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2020)

    421 points • comment • oct 01, 2020

  11. Apple declined to implement 16 Web APIs in Safari due to privacy concerns

    421 points • comment • jun 29, 2020

  12. Poolside.fm

    421 points • comment • feb 20, 2020

  13. MIT to no longer consider SAT subject tests in admissions decisions

    421 points • comment • mar 20, 2020

  14. Show HN: After 10 years my side project has hit $8k/mo in revenue

    421 points • comment • dec 15, 2020

  15. A new form of brain stimulation relieved severe depression in a small study

    421 points • comment • apr 07, 2020

  16. Please consider not adopting Google WebComponents

    421 points • comment • mar 17, 2020

  17. Kick the Shit Out of Procrastination

    420 points • comment • apr 20, 2020

  18. Show HN: Text-to-speech and speech-to-text open-source software stack

    420 points • comment • jan 26, 2020

  19. Firefox for Mobile now supports NoScript, PrivacyBadger, HTTPS Everywhere

    420 points • comment • may 05, 2020

  20. You might not need machine learning

    420 points • comment • nov 24, 2020

  21. Playstation's secret weapon: a nearly all-automated factory

    420 points • comment • jul 06, 2020

  22. SCOTUS rules you may sue government agents for damages when they violate rights

    420 points • comment • dec 12, 2020

  23. Sell Yourself, Sell Your Work

    420 points • comment • may 20, 2020

  24. React is becoming a black box

    420 points • comment • sep 03, 2020

  25. Ask HN: What's a side project you built to make money that hasn't?

    420 points • comment • dec 30, 2020

  26. Advanced SQL and database books and resources

    420 points • comment • may 11, 2020

  27. Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai arrested under national security law

    420 points • comment • aug 10, 2020

  28. 1195725856 and other mysterious numbers

    419 points • comment • jan 13, 2020

  29. French companies benefiting from state aid can't buy back shares

    419 points • comment • mar 30, 2020

  30. Your statement is correct but misses the point

    419 points • comment • apr 13, 2020

  31. Guerrilla Public Service Redux (2017)

    419 points • comment • may 27, 2020

  32. A man who can read letters but not numbers exposes roots of consciousness

    419 points • comment • jul 31, 2020

  33. Ask HN: Non-cloud voice recognition for home use?

    419 points • comment • mar 14, 2020

  34. Microsoft Tilecode

    419 points • comment • oct 24, 2020

  35. CapRover: Build your own PaaS

    419 points • comment • jun 09, 2020

  36. Background Features in Google Meet, Powered by Web ML

    419 points • comment • nov 02, 2020

  37. How long does a freezer stay frozen when the power goes out?

    418 points • comment • aug 10, 2020

  38. Writing a SQL database from scratch in Go

    418 points • comment • apr 12, 2020

  39. Godot Editor running in a web browser

    418 points • comment • may 29, 2020

  40. EasyOCR: Ready-to-use OCR with 40 languages

    418 points • comment • jul 08, 2020

  41. Getting started with bare-metal assembly

    418 points • comment • mar 25, 2020

  42. Welcome to the Old Internet Again

    417 points • comment • oct 17, 2020

  43. How are Unix pipes implemented?

    417 points • comment • mar 27, 2020

  44. What happened to Firefox Send?

    417 points • comment • sep 18, 2020

  45. Is WebP really better than JPEG?

    417 points • comment • jun 23, 2020

  46. Brave Browser Passes 20M Monthly Active Users and 7M Daily Active Users

    417 points • comment • nov 02, 2020

  47. Every year I fill out this survey from Apple, for Apple developers

    417 points • comment • jun 12, 2020

  48. New nuclear engine concept could help realize 3-month trips to Mars

    417 points • comment • oct 25, 2020

  49. The best Parts of Visual Studio Code are proprietary

    417 points • comment • aug 04, 2020

  50. 95th percentile isn't that hard to reach

    417 points • comment • feb 07, 2020

  51. Show HN: Instantly search 28M books from OpenLibrary

    417 points • comment • dec 14, 2020

  52. Unauthorized access to cameras in Safari on macOS and iOS

    416 points • comment • apr 03, 2020

  53. Calculus Made Easy (1914) [pdf]

    416 points • comment • may 21, 2020

  54. OpenTTD 1.10

    416 points • comment • apr 03, 2020

  55. Floating Point Visually Explained (2017)

    416 points • comment • may 05, 2020

  56. A group of ex-NSA and Amazon engineers are building a ‘GitHub for data’

    416 points • comment • feb 20, 2020

  57. Delete Facebook and You'll Lose All Oculus Games for Good

    416 points • comment • oct 24, 2020

  58. That company whose name used to contain HTML script tags Ltd

    416 points • comment • oct 28, 2020

  59. Q3 Linux touchpad update: Multitouch gesture test packages now ready

    416 points • comment • oct 06, 2020

  60. Toronto-area lawyer had to flee Canada after taking on the tow truck industry

    416 points • comment • nov 01, 2020

  61. GitHub for mobile is now available

    416 points • comment • mar 17, 2020

  62. First trans-Atlantic contact made on 432 MHz

    416 points • comment • apr 09, 2020

  63. Free virtual tours of 2,500 museums around the world

    416 points • comment • mar 18, 2020

  64. Sweden gives employees unpaid time off to be entrepreneurs (2019)

    416 points • comment • feb 15, 2020

  65. 2-Acre Vertical Farm Run by AI and Robots Out-Produces 720-Acre Flat Farm

    416 points • comment • dec 27, 2020

  66. Ignore AMP

    416 points • comment • dec 21, 2020

  67. Essays on programming I think about a lot

    415 points • comment • jul 21, 2020

  68. ACM has made 'Concurrency: the Works of Leslie Lamport' free to download

    415 points • comment • apr 02, 2020

  69. Microsoft Application Inspector

    415 points • comment • jan 28, 2020

  70. 1SecondPainting: Generate abstract paintings in one click

    415 points • comment • jul 22, 2020

  71. 91% of plastic isn't recycled (2018)

    415 points • comment • sep 15, 2020

  72. I won’t buy ebooks anymore

    415 points • comment • may 26, 2020

  73. Zoom Security Exploit: Cracking private meeting passwords

    415 points • comment • jul 29, 2020

  74. Diego Maradona has died

    415 points • comment • nov 25, 2020

  75. Developer and Power Users Tool List for Windows

    415 points • comment • dec 25, 2020

  76. An Interactive Introduction to Fourier Transforms

    414 points • comment • nov 14, 2020

  77. Postgres Observability

    414 points • comment • nov 11, 2020

  78. Koenigsegg’s 2.0-liter no-camshaft engine makes 600 horsepower

    414 points • comment • mar 14, 2020

  79. Windows98 Running in the Browser

    414 points • comment • jun 29, 2020

  80. The Haskell Elephant in the Room

    414 points • comment • jul 30, 2020

  81. Ami, a tiny cube on wheels that French 14-year-olds can drive

    414 points • comment • sep 11, 2020

  82. Physics Travel Guide – Physics concepts explained in three levels of difficulty

    414 points • comment • apr 02, 2020

  83. The KDE community is moving to GitLab

    414 points • comment • jun 29, 2020

  84. Stanford Pupper: low-cost quadruped robot

    414 points • comment • may 03, 2020

  85. Privacy is the most important concept of our time

    414 points • comment • oct 02, 2020

  86. China sharply expands mass labor program in Tibet

    414 points • comment • sep 22, 2020

  87. Ask HN: Why did you leave the tech industry?

    414 points • comment • apr 15, 2020

  88. Stop donating your customers' data to Google Analytics

    414 points • comment • jan 22, 2020

  89. Google to Invest $10B in India

    414 points • comment • jul 13, 2020

  90. Things Unexpectedly Named After People

    413 points • comment • jul 19, 2020

  91. Co-founder of Gokada found decapitated, dismembered inside New York condo

    413 points • comment • jul 15, 2020

  92. Ask HN: Any job boards and age-friendly companies for older developers?

    413 points • comment • may 27, 2020

  93. How I became a better programmer (2017)

    413 points • comment • mar 24, 2020

  94. Show HN: SheetUI – Turn Google Sheets into Web Pages

    413 points • comment • jul 07, 2020

  95. Introduction to Linear Algebra for Applied Machine Learning with Python

    413 points • comment • nov 11, 2020

  96. Ideas That Changed My Life

    413 points • comment • jun 07, 2020

  97. How housing became the world’s biggest asset class

    413 points • comment • jan 21, 2020

  98. Alcoholics Anonymous vs. other approaches: the evidence is now in

    413 points • comment • mar 11, 2020

  99. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2020)

    413 points • comment • jul 01, 2020

  100. "Much" of the Rust/Wasmtime team hit by layoffs at Mozilla

    413 points • comment • aug 13, 2020